need the best way to learn linux

[c0ld]

VTC Linux.
CBT-nuggets Linux.
All of the (fairly dated) LinuxCBT vids, especially the Bash one.

[Mikity]

Do you already have it installed? otherwise I'd recommend using a Live CD (like Ubuntu offers), that way there's very little to worry about, if you fsck your system up beyond recognition, you can always reboot

[sawad]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/

[Expeto]

using slackware or LFS are also very good ways to learn the "linux"

[skywalker91]

u can make use of ubuntu forums of you are using it
and use Google and utube
there are tons of tutorials on it

[lightshow]

Note: This is for someone who would like to get into Linux, and is what I'd recommend anyone who asked me personally as well.

I'd recommend not spending time learning bash and trying to go through all these CBT's on command line.

You can't learn without a goal. You'll just get lost, trust me. I've learned linux from ground up in 2 years. The only way you progress is by having simple tasks and goals that lead your learning.

What good is knowing the bash shell and scripting if you don't have a task you are trying to accomplish? What good is displaying hello world or browsing through /usr/bin if you don't really have anything to do in there?


So, I recommend finding some cool tasks that will benefit you and learn based on those tasks.

For example, I'm a big home theatre guy as you all are too (this is FST). You've probably had to learn about all the different movie codecs and players, etc. So lets say you learned all that in Windows and you're pretty good.

One great media center application, XBMC - www.xbmc.org, is multiplatform and runs in Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.

So:

1) Set up XBMC in windows (just install it and have it play one of your videos), just to see it and know what it looks like
2) XBMC runs on Ubuntu (I'd choose Desktop for this)
a) Get VMWare Workstation and install Ubuntu (just choose defaults for the installation)
b) Dual boot Windows and Ubuntu
3) Follow the install procedure
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title...-by-Step_Guide
This will let you see things like the terminal (command line) as well as how it all fits together to do a software install
4) Grab some video and put in on your desktop and see if the video plays and XBMC works as it did in your windows workstation
5) You did it! You just became a Linux guru by being able to install and configure a third party software that you yourself find useful in everyday life!